In this view, there is a unique and special mechanism responsible for flashbulb memories only.

Special mechanism approach

This view claims that flashbulb memories are simply normal memories but memories of emotionally charged and socially significant events.

Ordinary mechanism approach

___ provide a written record by which memories can be compared.

Diaries

an ordinary word is provided to participants and they are asked to provide the first memory – from any point in their life – which the
word elicits

Cue-word technique

refers to a spike in recalled memories corresponding to late adolescence to early adulthood, or roughly between the ages of 16 and 25.

Reminisence bump

This view is based on the idea that the time period of age 16 – 25 is simply a time period with many “first experiences,” that is, events that are unique and novel.

Memory-fluency

memories in which we take the vantage point of an outside observer and see ourselves as actors in our visual memory

Observer memories

This view centers on the idea that young adults have the most efficient encoding system based on optimal maturation of brain mechanisms of memory before the inevitable decline in memory abilities associated with age.

Neurological views

In this view, the age range 16 – 25 is associated with changes in
identity-formation of the individual

Socio-cultural views

autobiographical and visual memories in which we see the memory as if we were looking at the event through our own eyes. More associated with emotion.

Field memories

Unbidden memories that seemingly come spontaneously.

Involuntary memories

Falsely remembering someone else’s memory as one’s own.

Borrowed memories

T/F?
Herz (2004) showed that autobiographical memories produced by odor cues were given higher emotion ratings than were
autobiographical memories elicited by either visual cues or auditory cues

True

means that these patients had persistent feelings that they had lived the present moment before.